5 Awesome Physics & Astronomy Resources That You Can Access For Free Online

3/12/2016

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So we've finally come up with an awesome list of
great, free online sources that offer everything from old documents by your favorite
scientist to interesting sci-fi posters to put on your wall. If you've got
suggestions for other online sources, email us or mention it in the comment box
below.

1. Millions of scientific research papers are
accessible for free online via Sci-Hub

Also named as the 'Pirate Bay of Science', Sci-Hub
is the creation of neuroscientist Alexandra Elbakyan, who has shared Millions
of scientific research papers free of cost to everyone. Just to look up a quote
in a reaseach paper alone cost 40$ or more. So if you really need access to a
specific scientific paper, go to Sci-Hub first. Sci-Hub might not be around
forever, so enjoy this total treasure trove while it lasts.

2. Thousands of Einstein documents are available
for free online

New York Times once labeled them as the "Dead Sea Scrolls of physics", and now they are freely accessible to everyone.
Back in 2014, Princeton University started the Digital Einstein Papers project
- an open-access source that distributes the wide-ranging written heritage of
Albert Einstein to the public - some 80,000 documents, to be precise.

Covering the years of Einstein's youth through to
old age, Digital Einstein Papers project has made all sorts of letters, papers,
postcards, notebooks, and journals that Einstein left dispersed in Princeton
and in other records, attics, and shoeboxes around the world when he died in
1955 accessible to the public. Click here to access them.

3. Stunning high-res photos of the Apollo missions
are accessible for download on Flickr

You may think you’ve seen pictures of the Moon
landing before, but you haven’t seen that ambitious accomplishment correctly
until you've seen these breathtaking pics. NASA lately issued 9,200
high-resolution images from the Project Apollo Archive on Flickr, captured
during every manned mission to the Moon, both going to the destination and coming
back.

4. All of Richard Feynman’s physics lectures are
now online

Richard Feynman was also known as the ‘rockstar’ of
physics, and his lectures at Caltech in the1960s were fabulous. While video
recording of these lectures can be discovered on YouTube if you precisely know
where to look for, the best source for all things related to Feynman was a
three-volume collection of books titled The Feynman Lectures. Luckily for us,
what turn out to be the most popular collection of physics books ever written
has been made accessible online for free at the the Feynman Lectures Website.
Every single piece of this content, equations and all, has been planned to be
viewed on any sort of device.

In the start of the article, we promised something
beautiful to put on your wall, and here they are: the whole collection of
NASA's "Visions of the Future" space tourism posters, which comprises
sights of tourists ballooning around the purple mist of Jupiter's aurorae and
hoofing it through the widespread subterranean aquariums of its moon Europa.

Not limited to the planets within our Solar System
- they also have an exoplanet collection too - the posters might be awesome,
but the creators at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have created everything
you see on actual science. So check out the complete collection for download here.